Asiavision: Off To a New Start

South Korea – For over 2 years news of the planning of an Asia-Pacific Song Contest have been spread by Eurovision newsites (including this one). The old project “Our Sound” by a private company was supposed to feature about 20 Asian countries and was planned for autumn last year. Our Sound never made it past the “project in the pipeline” phase and was cancelled. Now eurovision.tv reports that the Asian equivalent of the EBU, the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU) is planning to hold a “television song festival” similar to the Eurovision Song Contest.

The blueprint of the competition was unveiled last night at the General Assembly of the ABU in New Delhi. It is supposed to be launched at next year’s General Assembly in Seoul, South Korea. Kenny Kihyung Bae, a senior producer of the South Korean broadcaster KBS will be responsible for the project. Bae is a Eurovision fan and is planning to attend the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest in Baku in order to “watch and learn”. He also said that the winner in Baku might be invited to perform at the Asian event. The name for the show has not been found yet, but Bae thinks “Asiavision Song Contest” may be a possible designation.

The ABU is the biggest Broadcasting Union in the world and reaches over 3 billion people all over Asia. The ABU covers an area stretching from Turkeyin the west to Samoa in the east, and from Russia in the north to New Zealand in the south.

Well winter is my favorite part of year (not that i dont like summer, but i love winter), because of hollydays,snow. and of course ESC season…
I just hope that National Selections will have better winners than last year (especially Ukraine, from which i expect great songs again, only this time without scandals)…

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I want to watch Asiavision on TV and promote my country at this contest. I hope that Asiavision can be held soon… Before Asiavision start, Asian countries must held pre-contest competitions like Eurovision’s national selection.

I know this is a little too late to post a comment, but as an Indonesian (like Widhi and Daffa (I didn’t know so many Indonesians are Eurovision fans, I thought it was just me)), I would like Asia to experience this Asiavision Song Contest. We could experience the voting, it would be like Eurovision, but without having to go to Europe! I really hope Indonesia participates and sends a good entry (and wins), but so far nobody is aware yet. I hope it happens soon!

Coming here from my country-Greece-I already knew about OUR SOUND-APSC and I was excited about how it will be,so I’m disapointed for new delights which came…anyway
GOOD LUCK AUSTRALIA for APSC 2013 in Seoul,KOREA REPUBLIC,all the best!

I’m a New Zealander originally from the Philippines and I’m not liking this idea. They need to stop giving us Asians the impression that we are copycats. At least change the name of the contest in something a bit more different and creative.

Anyways I think we already had a contest like Eurovision that used to be held in Japan every year but it wasn’t aired on TV but rather just a festival. Lots of artists from around the world used to take part it in. Even ABBA competed there! They should just work on reviving that. Not copy Eurovision.

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